How to Reorganize Your Garage Using These 5 Accessories

• Garage Cabinetry
• Slatwall Panels
• Wall Racks
• Workbenches
• Overhead Storage

Keep reading for more information about each of these awesome accessories, as well as how to clean up your garage using every one of them. You’re not going to want to miss it!

Smaller items are also right at home on slatwall panels. You can display all of your tools like a work of art. If you're especially proud of the tools that you've collected, you deserve to show them off!

For a custom garage especially, slatwall makes for a fantastic solution. You can get slatwall in all sorts of sizes, be those smaller panels or one single piece that covers your entire garage wall. Slatwall is a much more modern-looking and appealing solution to reorganizing your garage.

There’s no shortage of cabinet styles, sizes, and colors. Maybe you only need a cabinet or two to keep odds and ends that continuously accumulate in your garage. Perhaps you want a wall lined with a whole series of cabinets so you can truly tidy up once and for all.

Overhead cabinets, whole-wall cabinets, or those connected to a work surface will beautify your garage and make it a nicer, cleaner place to be in.

Wall racks are sturdy structures, often metal, that can be painted any color you want. Many racks have a simple, straightforward design, but if you want one with ornate decorative flourishes, you can find those as well.

You have plenty of versatility when it comes to sizing your wall racks. A two-shelf rack may be smaller but wider, and you can even opt for a four or five-shelf rack that's long and narrow. To attach your wall rack, you need only a stable hook or two. The rack hangs with no hardware needed. Yes, that means no installation time either.

Since wall racks may have metal wire shelves, avoid adding small items to those, as they will slip right out, where they could disappear. Try using the racks for a toolbox, containers, and other odds and ends. 

If your custom garage is in desperate need of some tidying up, you can look to that workbench as more than just a place to dedicate to your hobbies. It can also help in your quest for a better-organized garage.

 

Take your current bench to the next level with some accompanying storage. You can build this yourself if you're handy enough or shop for a cabinet system that slots into your bench perfectly. Now, the next time you find yourself needing a paintbrush or a drill bit, you don't have to get up and go hunting around your garage to find it. It will be within arm's reach. How handy! 

What can you do? Instead of looking out to the walls, look up instead. Overhead garage storage racks are ideal for your situation, as well as for tiny garages in which all space is at a premium.

These storage racks come in multiple materials including metal and plastic. They affix to your garage ceiling via poles. Most garage overhead storage solutions have wired bottoms, so you can look up to see what you're storing. 

To get to your overhead storage items, you will have to climb a ladder. Don't put items you use often up above. Instead, use that space for putting away those long-since-abandoned kids' toys, holiday decorations that only get used once per year, or extra supplies for your garage projects.

Mesh is mostly translucent so you can always see what’s inside. If you or one of your kids needs to grab something out of one of the baskets or bags, finding just what you need doesn’t prove difficult. The mesh also allows your items to breathe, so they don’t get stinky sitting in your garage.

Your mesh bags can also store like items together. Perhaps you keep a pair of shoes in there for mowing the lawn or a giant playmat for the kids. If your children are on a sports team, you can purchase each of them a mesh bag, keep their uniforms and a ball in there, and then send them off to practice with everything they need. In the meantime, the bags can sit on any of the wall storage hooks outlined above.

If those basketballs, footballs, and large outdoor toys keep reappearing every time you put them away, find them a more permanent home with a mesh basket. The basket has more structure than a mesh bag, and it’s bigger too. You can get a deeper bag or a longer one depending on what you want to keep in there.

These baskets come in an assortment of sizes, based on your organizational needs. Be careful storing tools in wire baskets, since some smaller ones might slip right out. However, larger items like wood for your woodcutting project, basketballs and footballs for the kids, drop cloths for painting, or even cleaning products for your motorcycle or car are all suitable picks.